Originally Posted by
Cheesemaster200
Similarly are there a lot of people with hundreds of thousands of rollover miles and otherwise not spending or flying with Delta? Is status for these people just an ego thing or something?
I've been diamond for years. I have two reserve cards, and my husband has one. I put enough spend on the cards to collect many if not all of the MQM boosts. With rollover, extensions, and the boosts, I have amassed a huge amount of MQMs. I fly about 75-100 segments a year, and I obviously cherish my DM status. More often than not, my husband joins, so we both enjoy the shared DM status. I'm at 90% upgrades for the year and have managed to find decent J redemptions on DL partners or Y redemptions on DL when I'm getting 2+ CPM.
I churn AA, AS, and UA visa/mastercards. So, I always have a mass of AA and UA miles to score better redemptions for longhaul J, but I put all of my domestic spend on DL.